Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation.

Mitch McConnell has experienced quite a few falls and other health setbacks over the years. Although officials have reassured ...

The patient might think she has vanquished the disease. She has not. Risk factors for post-polio syndrome include being female and overuse of the affected part; exercise is not advised ...

She is the author of the book The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care. Last month it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer ...

Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there was a time in this country when polio paralyzed 20,000 people in a ...

advertisements for polio insurance and news reports with grim statistics (cases and fatalities) or photos of patients in iron lungs or mechanical respirators. Some children in the trial received ...

The CEO stated that preliminary diagnosis indicated their condition was caused by a hereditary disease rather than polio. He said a committee had previously been constituted to verify the nature ...

or inactivated polio vaccine, in 1953. This type of vaccine, which injects the killed virus into patients, was adopted by the U.S. officially in 1955. In the years following, polio cases in the U ...

In its early stages, poliomyelitis — known as polio — causes fatigue ... and around 5% to 10% of paralyzed patients die when their breathing muscles become immobilized. The disease mainly ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease ... and around 5% to 10% of paralyzed patients die when their breathing muscles become immobilized. The disease mainly affects children under 5 ...